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What we mean when we lie about our comedy

September 19, 2015September 19, 20151

I accept Steve Rannazzisi’s apology. Even if he hasn’t yet apologized to me personally. Even if, by the time he last spoke to me in 2013, he’d begun choosing his words a little more carefully when lying about where he was on Sept. 11, 2001. That he’s coming forward now …

Unapologetic joke thief claims it took months before anyone had a problem with him stealing from the late Patrice O’Neal

August 5, 2013

Kain Carter has 619,615 subscribers to his YouTube channel, which he titled “hotdamnirock.” For much of the past year, however, what Carter was rocking in his vlogs were monologues ripped verbatim from the mouth of late stand-up comedian Patrice O’Neal. Carter acknowledged this only after being called out on his …